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Personal data Unknown White 

• He was born about 1651 in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony.
• He died in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony.
• A child of Peregrine White and Sarah Bassett

Household of Unknown White

Notes about Unknown White

{{Mayflower Family Member}}
== Biography ==Governor William Bradford wrote a history "Of Plimouth Plantation." It contained a list of the Mayflower passengers and a list of the increasings and decreasings from these passengers thirty years later say 1650/1.
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}}He stated that Peregrine White had two children at the time of the listing. One was Daniel born about 1649. The name of the second child is not in any of the surviving records. It can be assumed that he died young, likely before he became an adult.Bradford, William. History of Plymouth plantation. The original was published in 1651. This version ( Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1856) [https://archive.org/details/historyofplymout00brad_0/page/n943 p. 452] Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Sherman, Ruth Wilder and Sherman, Robert Moody (original compilers). ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Thirteen Family of William White.'' Third Edition. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006) p. 10.
=== Joseph ? ===In 1995, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, suggested that this second child was Joseph White of Marshfield, who was killed during King Philip's War. The only White families in Marshfield at the time were those of Resolved and Peregrine. Resolved's children are known. Joseph was of an appropriate age to be the son of Peregrine.Wakefield, Robert S. "Joseph White Probable Grandson of William White of the Mayflower." The Mayflower Descendant. 45:53 (1995)
4 Mar 1672/3, George Russell was fined ten shillings for a misdemeanor toward Joseph White.Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England : printed by order of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Court Orders Vol. V 1668-1678. (Boston: Press of William White, 1856) [https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo0506newp/page/n125 p. 112]
Joseph White and Samuel Holmes, both of Marshfield, took a complaint to court 4 July 1673. The complaint was against George Russell. White and Holmes built him two chimneys and not only did he not pay for the work but he didn't adhere to his end of the contract, which was to supply extra labor and goods for the job. The court found for the plaintiffs.Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England : printed by order of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Judicial Acts 1636-1692. (Boston: Press of William White, 1857) [https://archive.org/stream/recordsofcolonyo0708newp#page/176/mode/2up/search/Russell p. 177, 178]
Joseph, was killed 26 March 1676 on the banks of the Pawtucket River. Captain Pierce and about fifty men were killed by the Indians. After the Great Swamp fight, this battle had the second highest casualty rate of King Phillip's War.Wakefield, Robert S. "Plymouth Colony Casualties in King Philips War." The American Genealogist 60:236 (intro) [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12789/236/0 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)]; p. 242.

Joseph died without any known issue.
== Sources ==


* Source: Roser, Susan. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Publication: Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Accessed at Ancestry.com
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